More From People Who Battle Depression

My father has Multiple System Atrophy (or MSA) and for a year I have been watching him slowly deteriorate right before my eyes. Every day it is something new; last night I woke up to him howling in pain and there was nothing I could do to help. What sucks even more is that my...

Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out...